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Saturday, October 27, 2007

CONGRATULATIONS

From: YAHOO LOTTO - y_aiirxg@hotmail.com

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! YAHOO LOTTERY INTERNATIONALThis is to inform you that you have won a prize money of THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($300,000.00) for the YEAR 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC for the introduction of the new YAHOO BETA MAIL which all YAHOO users are required to switch onto. YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arrange and gather all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail, and others we only select TWENTY (20) candidates per annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIMWe are sorry that your Payment Approval File was sent to Africa so that you can be cleared and paid simultaneously there. You are to contact our UK Agent to give you more details for the collection of your winning fund.Yahoo Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 14 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won.Note. You are to bear the cost of recieving your prize fund in any option you chosed of recieving your fund.

Important Note - None of the legitimate lottery companies or other businesses mentioned on this page are involved in these scams. The scammers are borrowing their identity and in some cases their websites to make their scams look more legitimate so people fall for them. Scammers will also make up company names so some of the business names appearing here simply do not exist at all. If a business website is linked to from this page the scammers ARE using that to scam people - businesses beware! It would be in your best interests to place a warning advising that scammers are using your name on the page mentioned in the scammers email.

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